huntsonora
Explorer
First of all, I owe a huge THANK YOU to all of the forum members here that have been so insightful on various threads and PM's! Thank you very much and I apologize if any of my questions were ignorant, I sometimes over analyze things
Anyway, my wife and I are expecting our first child on or around April 5th and besides her company car all we have is my regular cab Dodge truck. I cannot turn the airbags off in it and therefore its not that practical to have with a newborn. We looked at FJ Cruisers, 2005-2006 Tundras, Tahoes, Sequoias and 4Runners! We originally planned to buy the first fairly low mile 1st Gen DC Tundra we found be they are damn tough to find!
Long story short, I got a call on Friday that the dealership where I had been looking had just taken in a lightly used 2011 4Runner Trail Edition and the salesman I had been working with wanted to know if we wanted to take a look at it. I said sure, loaded up my less than enthusiastic very pregnant wife and we headed to the dealership. We saw it and they had not detailed it or done anything to it but it was clean! It had 23,000 on the odometer and my wife loved it! Due to a prior obligation we made an appointment to drive it the next day, which was yesterday. We asked if we could take it on an extended test drive as we were really interested and wanted to get a good feel for the 4Runner. They said no problem and off we went. I took it down some fairly rough dirt county roads, we went through town and we spent some time on the highway and we were hooked! When we got back to the dealership the onboard calculator said that we averaged 23.1 MPG. SCORE!
We sat down and started negotiating, which I HATE doing, and I basically had a cap in mind. Knowing that a comprable TE would go for over $39K new and TT&L would bring it to almost $43k I wanted to feel fairly comfortable that the depreciation was factored in. I ended up buying the 4Runner for a shade over $34Kout the door and that included the certified warranty that covers powertrain to 100K miles and the upgraded warranty that covers EVERYTHING for 100K miles. I dont normally do extended warrantys but it was cheap enough that it just made sense. The technology is pretty complex in these TE 4Runners and if it needs 1 repair before 100K miles it was worth it.
Anyway, here are the pics of our new family wagon, we havent named it yet but am thinking os something that would remind me of this...
The only 2 pictures I got yesterday were on my iphone camera but you guys have all seen these 4Runners before...
Honestly, I would have preferred a silver TE BUT the price was right and my wife loved the grey. Here is a picture of the trailer I'll use when out camping, hunting, fishing etc. I bought this from another member here on Expo and this thing it AWESOME!
I am also keeping my beloved 94 Dodge 4x4 with the 12 valve so all in all it was a GREAT weekend!
Thanks again for all of the positive feedback and advice that all the members here have been able to provide! I really appreciate it!
Drummond
Anyway, my wife and I are expecting our first child on or around April 5th and besides her company car all we have is my regular cab Dodge truck. I cannot turn the airbags off in it and therefore its not that practical to have with a newborn. We looked at FJ Cruisers, 2005-2006 Tundras, Tahoes, Sequoias and 4Runners! We originally planned to buy the first fairly low mile 1st Gen DC Tundra we found be they are damn tough to find!
Long story short, I got a call on Friday that the dealership where I had been looking had just taken in a lightly used 2011 4Runner Trail Edition and the salesman I had been working with wanted to know if we wanted to take a look at it. I said sure, loaded up my less than enthusiastic very pregnant wife and we headed to the dealership. We saw it and they had not detailed it or done anything to it but it was clean! It had 23,000 on the odometer and my wife loved it! Due to a prior obligation we made an appointment to drive it the next day, which was yesterday. We asked if we could take it on an extended test drive as we were really interested and wanted to get a good feel for the 4Runner. They said no problem and off we went. I took it down some fairly rough dirt county roads, we went through town and we spent some time on the highway and we were hooked! When we got back to the dealership the onboard calculator said that we averaged 23.1 MPG. SCORE!
We sat down and started negotiating, which I HATE doing, and I basically had a cap in mind. Knowing that a comprable TE would go for over $39K new and TT&L would bring it to almost $43k I wanted to feel fairly comfortable that the depreciation was factored in. I ended up buying the 4Runner for a shade over $34Kout the door and that included the certified warranty that covers powertrain to 100K miles and the upgraded warranty that covers EVERYTHING for 100K miles. I dont normally do extended warrantys but it was cheap enough that it just made sense. The technology is pretty complex in these TE 4Runners and if it needs 1 repair before 100K miles it was worth it.
Anyway, here are the pics of our new family wagon, we havent named it yet but am thinking os something that would remind me of this...
The only 2 pictures I got yesterday were on my iphone camera but you guys have all seen these 4Runners before...
Honestly, I would have preferred a silver TE BUT the price was right and my wife loved the grey. Here is a picture of the trailer I'll use when out camping, hunting, fishing etc. I bought this from another member here on Expo and this thing it AWESOME!
I am also keeping my beloved 94 Dodge 4x4 with the 12 valve so all in all it was a GREAT weekend!
Thanks again for all of the positive feedback and advice that all the members here have been able to provide! I really appreciate it!
Drummond
Weve been playing with our '10 Limited for 2 years now and are just starting to toy with it, LOVE it. Not to mention, aftermarket support is getting better every year.